Northern Light
Superstar
Fundamentally, we disagree.
As someone who has walked the halls of Queen's Park some, and City Hall more often (and for that matter, albeit much more rarely, Parliament), and someone who neither has a desire to be a victim, nor see anyone else there become one, I simply don't share your degree of apprehension.
You should know, sadly, that death threats to politicians, even ours, are remarkably common.
That's not ok in the least. Persons engaged in such nonsense should be prosecuted.
However, we don't militarize our legislatures or City Hall over what are mostly keyboard warriors.
I don't deny there are risks in that; but I'm also aware of the likely extent of them; and further, than militarizing a legislature actually doesn't provide anything close to complete protection anyway.
You're entitled to your preference.
I simply don't share it.
As someone who has walked the halls of Queen's Park some, and City Hall more often (and for that matter, albeit much more rarely, Parliament), and someone who neither has a desire to be a victim, nor see anyone else there become one, I simply don't share your degree of apprehension.
You should know, sadly, that death threats to politicians, even ours, are remarkably common.
That's not ok in the least. Persons engaged in such nonsense should be prosecuted.
However, we don't militarize our legislatures or City Hall over what are mostly keyboard warriors.
I don't deny there are risks in that; but I'm also aware of the likely extent of them; and further, than militarizing a legislature actually doesn't provide anything close to complete protection anyway.
You're entitled to your preference.
I simply don't share it.